(7) The First Manifestation in Ahadith Numerous ahadith...

God created him and then from him created every good.” (8) Jabir ibn Yazid narrated from Imam Baqir (a.s), “O Jabir. Verily the first that God created was Muhammad and his pure family. Those who guide and are guided. They were the spirits of light before the mighty hand of God.’ Jabir said I asked the Imam what he meant by the spirits of light? The Imam replied, ‘Shadow of the Light’” (9).

It seems the meaning of the shadow of the Light refers to the fact that God is “The Light’ as is referred to in Ayatul Noor and the spirit of Muhammad is His shadow and His First Manifestation. Jabir ibn Abdullah narrated from the Prophet (S), “The first that the Almighty God created was my light who created it from His Light and it derived from the glory of His greatness.

Then that light approached circulating by the might until it reached the Glory of the Greatness in seventy thousand years and then prostrated for God in glorification. Then from that light, the light of Ali gushed out and so my light was encompassing by the Glory and the light of Ali was encompassing by the Might.” (10) Abu Dharr al Ghifari in a long hadith in the description of the journey of ascension narrated from the prophet: “I said O angels of my Lord.

Do you know us as we deserved to be known? They said, ‘O Prophet of God: How don’t we know you and you are the first creation of God, He created you as the spirits of light from His Light in light from the sublimity of His Dignity and the sublimity of His Kingdom and the sublimity of His Honorable Face.” (11) Imam Ali (a.s) said, “Surely the Almighty God created from the light of Muhammad twenty oceans of light.